Within two weeks, after what Mr. Starks family claims was a botched bone marrow biopsy, he died of an abdominal hemorrhage on Aug. 11, 2011.

Just over a year to the day since his fathers death, Massena resident Dustin J. Stark filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Tuesday in state Supreme Court against Massena Memorial Hospital, three of the hospitals doctors and the town of Massena.

Mr. Stark, asserts the lawsuit filed by attorney Robert E. Lahm, Syracuse, suffered hypovolemic shock, conscious pain and suffering, mental anguish, injury, shock to his system and his wrongful death.

The three doctors named in the lawsuit are Priti Mandalaywala and Suhail S. Daye, both of Potsdam, and Halina Jandura-Cessna, of Utica.

Dustin Stark could not be reached for comment.

According to court documents, Mr. Stark was diagnosed with an enlarged spleen and thrombocythemia, a high number of blood platelets, by Dr. Mandalaywala while she treated his arm injury on July 30, 2011.

He reported back to the hospital on Aug. 11 for a follow-up appointment to rule out leukemia. The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Mandalaywala broke his right ilium, the largest and uppermost bone of the pelvis, and injured his iliac artery while attempting a bone marrow biopsy.

Defendant Mandalaywalas aspiration biopsy deviated from reasonable standards of medical care and (she) was not competent or qualified to perform the procedure, the lawsuit states.

Allegedly, the artery damage was left undiagnosed and Mr. Stark was discharged. While in the hospitals parking lot, however, he fainted and was readmitted to the emergency department at 12:32 p.m.

A CT scan revealed abdominal hemorrhaging, Dr. Daye was notified of the emergency at 1:20 p.m. and Dr. Jandura-Cessna examined Mr. Stark about 15 minutes later, according to court documents.

Mr. Stark received three blood transfusions between 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., was examined by Dr. Daye at 3:48 p.m., then fully coded and was resuscitated.

Mr. Stark was received at Fletcher-Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., shortly after 5 p.m., but lifesaving treatments were unsuccessful. He died at 9:20 that night.

The lawsuit seeks an amount of money to be determined by the court.

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